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Key Facts and Statistics from Childwelfare.gov Include these key points in your messaging to demonstrate the important role relative and kinship caregivers play in supporting family connections that are essential to a child’s health and well-being. There are over 407,000 children and youth in foster care , and 34 percent were placed with relatives or kin. The term kin encompasses both relatives (those related by blood or marriage) and fictive kin (those who are unrelated but have such a...

Join us for an in person screening of the film Resilience to learn about the biology of stress and the science of hope. On May 25, 2022 the Resilient Brunswick County Task Force will host two in person film screenings followed by a brief panel discussion at Odell Williamson Auditorium at Brunswick Community College. Please join us to connect with other people, groups, and community organizations working to serve children in Brunswick County and learn more about resilience and efforts...

Brunswick, New Hanover, and Pender County resiliency initiative leaders Cape Fear Collection and came together to show a screening of the film Resilience and collectively share about efforts being done to prevent and heal ACEs at an individual and systems level as well as data to demonstrated the need for these efforts and task forces. J'vanete Skiba shared about the Realms of ACEs and their impacts as it relates to the film as well as the impacts on individuals in our community. Nicholas...

We are looking forward to sharing our next mini-conference with you, entitled “ Coming Full Circle: Systems-Thinking as the Path Forward for Trauma-Informed Communities ”. The conference will take place on Wednesday, May 4, 2022 from 9am-11am . Register today for a calendar invitation and Zoom link. In our final mini-conference before the Summit, we come full circle. We will bring together all that we have learned about trauma, collective healing, values-driven action, and centering equity...

Introducing the Creating Resilient Communities Accelerator Program at PACEs Connection! DONIELLE PRINCE (PACES CONNECTION STAFF) 3/8/223:01 PM PACES CONNECTION IS EXCITED TO INTRODUCE OUR NEW CREATING RESILIENT COMMUNITIES (CRC) ACCELERATOR PROGRAM. (CLICK HERE TO REVIEW A BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF EACH EVENT. SEE BELOW FOR APRIL EVENT TIMES). THE 16 HOUR CRC ACCELERATOR IS FOCUSED ON SUPPORTING AND DEVELOPING INDIVIDUAL ACTIVISTS AND ADVOCATES IN TRANSFORMING THEIR COMMUNITIES AND ORGANIZATIONS...

Learn more about the amazing Empowering Youth and Families Program in North Carolina. Empowering Youth and Families Confluence Wrap-Up https://opioidpreventionnc.org/

April 7, 2022

Leslie Smiley, shared with the Resilient Brunswick group at the April monthly meeting about the programs and processes that Cape Fear Health Net is providing. Counties that this covers: Brunswick, Columbus, New Hanover, Pender Serves folks between the ages of 18-64 Learn more here Learn more here

Join three Resiliency Initiatives in the Cape Fear area to be part of the imperative conversation and learning of information about the biology of stress and resilience. Thursday, April 28 from 12:00-2:00 p.m. virtual event! Register Here .

Join the Cape Fear Resiliency Initiative leaders to learn more about how Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) impact our local community. Thursday, April 28, 2022 12:00-2:00. Register Here .

Introducing the Creating Resilient Communities Accelerator Program at PACEs Connection, a 16 hour program, free and open to the public, to learn key topics in organizing PACEs science informed resilient communities.

We invite you to join this month's CTIPP CAN call, which we've mentioned during the Building the Movement workshops . We'll discuss how multi-sector coalitions can address trauma and promote resilience - we hope to see you there! CTIPP CAN: Wednesday, March 16, 2022 from 2:00-3:30 p.m. ET / 11:00 a.m.-12:30 p.m. PT https://us02web.zoom.us/j/742183645 Meeting ID: 742 183 645 +19292056099,,742183645# US (New York) Q&A session after presentations Our featured guests include the Winer Family...